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http://m.timesofindia.com/india/us-approves-sale-of-22-guardian-drones-to-india/articleshow/59274194.cms The deal is between $2B and $3B So any guesses if its $2.001B or $2.999B? Doesnt this expose a few truths about the DRDO? 1. They havent mastered take off, flight, landing of a drone 2. They have...

Pah.. After hearing rambling nonsense about "Yaan mein lagaye hue camera" and "Prajwalan" and stuff , a relief to be able to shut down the feed. Time to send the Hindi Vibhaag guy home. Why... Hindi coverage may sound non-nasa like but what if the coverage inspires rural kids fr...

I dont understand why, in UN speeches, india only "alludes" to, "without naming points fingers to" pakistan. Why can't the diplomat say "pakistani government sponsored terrorism needs to end". History is replete with terms like "country at the western border",...

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/pakistan-tightens-business-work-visas-for-chinese-nationals/articleshow/59263525.cms First pakis could not protect the hapless Chinese couple, then pakis could not find the doomed chinese couple, then they could not arrest the killers, so they did the ultimate paki th...

How about pay HAL licensing rights to build a private line for LCA. We are going to pay the phirangs that anyhow. On one hand we want HAL to stand on its own feet and run like any other MNC. Strawman argument to write mumbo jumbo.. There is NO mandate for hal to be an MNC. Or even to "stand on...

^^^ Rishi V, Tell me in 10-years time if what you say/believe in becomes true. I'll send you a bag of sweets :) Too often it seems there is still a very strong belief that foreigners will be the savior of all things. Time to believe in Indian capabilities. I dont see the issue as desi vs phirangi, ...

If you take unfavourable conditions for one, it should be applied to the other as well. GEneral rule of thumb, if you have two aircraft with similar performance, fuel fraction, and engine SFCs, their range and combat radius will also be comparable. What does work in F-16s favour is that its fuel fr...

So apart from an increased production schedule, what are we learning? This in itself would be a great lesson. India sorely needs manufacturing knowhow of complex systems. Indian culture respects r & d but not manufacturing. Its time to change that notion. Manufacturing is a science by itself an...

SNIP I think you are missing a big point here with respect to Glonass. (Vs GPS and NaviC).. (Disclaimer/Warning): The following is some what technical and may be beyond the scope/interest for common audience here. You do need understanding of general and special theory of relativity ( much more tha...

The team management in London was told that Sardar should come to Leeds for questioning by the Yorkshire police. Guilty or not, he should be immediately brought back to India and shall not be sent to UK under any condition. There is no need for us to be nice to UK when they keep terrorists to Mally...

What technologies can we reasonably expect to gain from the TATA-LM agreement to shift F-16 production to India? "Transfer of technology" (ToT) .. This is the fifth most frequently used indian-english phrase after "techie", "topper", "dharna", and "dalit...

SS in that Dawn article this part of is true Rishi Verma please note. <chip> Noted saar, but even if the US with a wink and a nod gave pakis some blueprint or some glow in the dark material, right now it wont do us any good to blame or "expose" the US. Why dont we do the same to Mexico or...

I prefer F/A-18 super hornet including growler variant common platform for IAF and Navy, quantity 1000 minimum. And phase out everything else including LCA and try again with AMCA, (which will be over-weight and under powered with radome issues, landing gear issues etc etc) .. So better start design...

China must be feeling leftout from indian HSR projects. If things go right the indian HSR projects alone can be as much as the entire CPEC in the same time frame. Modi has shown Xi true eleven fingers. CCTV (china central tv) had a documentary on how china got german HSR technology initially then &q...

They can possibly recover stages in the A&N islands How would recovered and refurbished pieces be cheaper than brand new rocket casings? Especially if there are limited number of launches. ..recovery with coast guard ships and crew isnt cheap. Its only worth reusing if the rocket lands back lik...

other videos of ruaf savagely attacking isis units trying to move toward palmyra https://www.rt.com/news/390383-russian-jets-raqqa-airstrike/ whispers speak of the russis planning a 2nd base in palmyra including a radar facility to keep an eye on entire region once the war is over I hope russia rea...

Whats the definition of "extremely hard". If one attempts it will one get an incurable migraine? Will it require 10 software vinies 10 years? Whats the definition. I dont think its "extremely hard", i think its "nearly easy" Rishi ji, do you have to be obnoxious in eve...

Since they already had the half-Israeli radar and Israeli missiles on Mk1, why did they not just order the Israeli AESA radar and jamming pod and thus quickly build the MK1A for the IAF? The whole tendering thing 'to get a better/ cheaper alternative' is an example of the best becoming the enemy of...

I think the utility of p-8 poseidon in hunting and killing subs may be limited or at least overrated esp in indian context. If the very limited numbers of them are constantly taking of and landing from INS rajali. The chinese satellites can track each -737 P-8 and inform their subs to stay deep unde...

Hope PM Modi used the opportunity on his recent Euro tour and offered Mumbai,Chennai as clearing center for EU . if he did, they would have turfed him out immediately. That is a pie that they all want all for their white skinned selves only . I think we should go easy with skin-colour related sente...

Reading into the Pressler amendment - Mohtarma Rabia Akhtar, Daily Times More and more confirmation of the US help to Pakistan in its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. What was very obvious to us two decades back is getting confirmed brick-by-brick. More than the US its China which provided direc...

Totally OT, but one of my friend works in Qualcomm San Diego in field of wireless/mobile signal processing and he told me that QC doesn't guarantee fidelity of cell service beyond some 100mph or so. This was like 7 years ago and probably tech has moved forward enough to work most of the times at ai...

Media has made a monster out of Mallaya. Didnt he bring Tipu sword home, his Racing team name is Force India... Its just the bhooka nanga media and other Indians cant handle his flameboyant style... Or young wife.. Now he Has became a political football. CBI is clueless as ever. Until there is a fai...

.....snip Arjun is only a symbol of what could be achieved by indigenous design. We confuse this with indigenous manufacture. DRDO is a research lab, and like the IA, it is not their mandate to set up partners. it is that of the MoD, or at least that of the Secy Defence Production. Kind request, if...

400% PUKE ALERT !!!! A Paki Man Married With Two Women Legally - Normal Day Of Pakistan - and they are both his cousin sisters :eek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr63PkMow7I [jutube]Pr63PkMow7I[/jutube] Just look at the pride on these Mofo's faces, smug and trying to justify this perverse act ! ...

The accuracy required (in both stable frequency and latency (wrt to "standard" TAI) is about MILLION times more than what is typical needed (or achieved) on a typical computer or a cell phone. Yes. What I am trying to understand is WHY is such accuracy required . Saar, not the accuracy bu...

When an inexplicable drama such as (mmmrca, hot/cold/desert tibet) is played out and we laught at IAF and Babus.. A question needs to be asked. Who are we and who are they? IAF and defense ministry babus are us! They are india. And "we" should not be surprised. We see such drama daily in r...